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Vague Wars in History


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Post weird, vague, or just obscure wars in history. It would be nice if instead of just naming the war that you would also give a short or long (idc) summary on what it was about.

 

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The Emu War took place in Australia in 1932, when Australia was infested with Emus. Farmers and ranchers and all the peasants got angry because there would always be a giant fucking bird eating your shit or being a nuisance. The emus are also protective, so when the Australians tried to take land the emus would constantly annoy the fuck out of people. IN 1922 they were classified as vermin and by 1932 there were over 20,000 of them pestering people. The Australian government sent in a small army with heavy guns to put a dent in their population, but each time they fired at the emus they would quickly scatter away - and emus aren't that small so it took a lot of bullets to take even a few down. It became very tiring and eventually they gave up.  Please don't fact check me on this..

 

 

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Battle of Karánsebes, the battle between Austria and Ottomans in 1788 that Austrian soldiers shot friendlies accidentally. A real meme war, you should search about it.

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On 2/24/2018 at 9:04 PM, Alpha said:

Battle of Karánsebes, the battle between Austria and Ottomans in 1788 that Austrian soldiers shot friendlies accidentally. A real meme war, you should search about it.

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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/04/battle-karansebes/

 

TL;DR: The first mention of this battle was 40 or so years after it allegedly happened,meaning that it most likely never actually happened. 

 

A 'war' (a campaign in a war in this example) that I find 99% of people have never heard of is the Aleutian Islands Campaign.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_Campaign

 

TL;DR: The Japanese invade some islands off the coast of Alaska during WW2. They eventually retreat. US loses 313 men trying to retake an empty island (booby traps,land mines,friendly fire,frostbite,...)

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KL4R1NO the Indefatigable

I'm either far too well-read, or you guys are just posting really obvious and well-known examples of m3m wars

 

the bucket war is the exception wtf happened there lol

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13 hours ago, KL4R1NO the Indefatigable said:

I'm either far too well-read, or you guys are just posting really obvious and well-known examples of m3m wars

 

the bucket war is the exception wtf happened there lol

Even the bucket war is relatively famous. Except for the last post, which after a bit of looking is more of a legend rather than an actual event,you are just repeating famous weird events, which are in no way "obscure" 

 

Tldr learn 2 shitpost correctly 

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3 hours ago, Dimitry said:

Even the bucket war is relatively famous. Except for the last post, which after a bit of looking is more of a legend rather than an actual event,you are just repeating famous weird events, which are in no way "obscure" 

 

Tldr learn 2 shitpost correctly 

sorry dad

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Shephard
On 04/03/2018 at 1:27 PM, Dimitry said:

Even the bucket war is relatively famous. Except for the last post, which after a bit of looking is more of a legend rather than an actual event,you are just repeating famous weird events, which are in no way "obscure" 

 

Tldr learn 2 shitpost correctly 

Alright then you cheeky shit how about operation fork  ?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland

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5 hours ago, Shephard said:

Alright then you cheeky shit how about operation fork  ?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland

Well I dont know if it's really obscure, I knew about it since everyone was talking about it at some point

3 hours ago, goose said:

More like operation paperclip

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

 

fight me

Everyone knows about this 

Also not a war

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